Hef's the Centerfold in 'Mr. Playboy' Biography

Delivering a shocking, stripped-bare book about Hugh Hefner is a bit like promising an exposé on Madonna. In the case of both pop culture icons, every salacious turn has been well-documented, if not by the media then by the subjects themselves. So it comes as little surprise that Steven Watts' 500-page doorstop of a biography — "Mr. Playboy: Hugh Hefner and the American Dream" (Wiley, $29.95), out Monday — offers no tabloid bombshells about the sultan of sex. Instead, the book dissects Hefner's... Full Story